Egypt · COPTIC CAIRO

Coptic Cairo: the Hanging Church, Abu Serga and Ben Ezra

Working churches. Cover shoulders and knees; photography is restricted inside some of them.

Inside the Roman walls of Babylon, a few narrow streets hold the Hanging Church suspended over a gatehouse, the crypt at Abu Serga, the Ben Ezra Synagogue and, up on the Mokattam cliff, the cave church of St Simon. These are congregations, not exhibits: services run, some rooms close without notice, and shoulders and knees should be covered. Tours below stop at them as part of a wider Cairo day.

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